Open letter regarding article titled "pusallanimity of Baha'i administration"
Pat Kohli
I am posting this to usenet as well as BCCing you. Hopefully the BCC
will evade the email address harvesters of usenet.
I have seen a newsgroup message, purportedly authored by you, and posted
by Nima Hazini, in which you claim to have seen a drective from the US
NSA instructing Baha'is not to say the "prayer for America" publicly in
response to the horrid assault on our country of September 11. When the
message was posted there were several requests for corroboration. Nima
provided various responses, but did not post the directive from the NSA
instructing Baha'is not to say the "prayer for America".
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=NSA+directive+seen&hl=en&rnum=8&selm=9qt2to%241uh%241%40gnamma.connect.com.au
At the time that this message was posted my mail had been delayed and I
had not seen the latest feast letter. I gave you the benefit of the
doubt.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=3BD35AC1.1861638F%40ameritel.net
As time went on, and such a directive did not appear in my mailbox, I
became suspicious that there was a mistake. I checked the usbnc web
site and found no such letter; on the contrary, I found an entirely
different letter from the US NSA, regarding the attacks of September 11.
After a month, I came to strongly doubt that you saw what you claimed -
a directive from the US NSA instructing Baha'is not to say the "prayer
for America". I do not know if you saw some staffer's draft hysterical
overreaction, and mistook that for an NSA directive, or if you saw
nothing even that might resemble an NSA directive. It is clear to me
that you do not have academic objectivity when it comes to Baha'i
adminstration. Your credibility, in criticizing the AO, has evaporated.
Over the past five or six weeks I had assumed that Nima was passing
along questions and concerns regarding your message to you. Recently
Nima unsubscribed from TRB and will not be available to act as your
proxy. Therefore I think it is appropriate to contact you directly.
If there is some explanation for how this happened, why anyone should
trust you when you complain about the AO, I am all ears. Otherwise,
when someone quotes you, as an expert, criticizing the AO, I will point
out why I see you as having no academic objectivity when it comes to the
AO, and the US Baha'i community.
- Pat
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